Independent Touch

Abstract

This invention is a What you touch is what you get interface WYTIWYG which is a new touch interface not relying on the appearance of a touch-sensitive display screen, and therefore has capacity to be backward compatible with an existing operating system EOS which is a WYSIWYG interface, and yet be able to fully operate every operation of the EOS by a touch different to the EOS. The EOS, including one of the latest version of iOS, Android and Windows, is a What you see is what you get interface WYSIWYG. The EOS relies on at least displaying two or more different appearances of graphical display element GDE on an appearance of a background screen, e.g. the internet icon and the phone icon on the background screen of the desktop. The user from the appearance of the internet icon or the phone icon knows which icon to tap respectively to open an internet browser or a phone application, therefore it was not the predetermined movement of a tap alone on the screen (WYTIWYG) but rather was the appearance of the icon (WYSIWYG) that determined which operation was performed by a predetermined movement of a tap. Furthermore, another user could move the icons so that they occupied the other icon location on the screen so if the display component was powered off it was impossible without seeing the appearance of the GDEs or the last page appearance of the GUI to know what operation would be performed in a WYSIWYG interface in FIG. 13 of the Prior Art if the display component was not powered. Whereas in a WYSIWYG interface does not have any of the limitations of the prior art WYSIWYG in FIG. 13 but operates by the flow diagram of FIG. 14 and the user could perform a touch within a grid of invisible regions to enter a ASCII character string to perform an operation independent of the appearance of the display component of the screen whether powered or not powered, and be able to fully operate a device by the increased capacity of a WYTISWYG interface requiring less elements and limitation of the WYSIWYG of the EOS.

1 . A method of performing an operation for a device by a path of one or more locations touched by a movement of a digit on a touch-sensitive display screen as the only input method on the surface of the device. 
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , in which an element of the method is the movement of the digit performing the operation of an existing operating system EOS differently than the device operated by the EOS including at least one of
 (i) the latest version of iOS, Android, and Windows, and   (ii) an application of the EOS.   
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 2 , in which an element of the method is the movement of the digit detected by the screen by at least one of
 (i) contact of the digit on the screen as a digit coordinate on the screen, and   (ii) an adjustable attached stylus to the digit not touching the screen detected as a stylus coordinate on the screen, and   (iii) by the movement of the digit alone at least at one location on the screen provides the option of a user selecting the digit coordinate, or the stylus coordinate to be detected as only a coordinate input of the screen to operate the EOS differently by movement of the pointer alone.   
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 3 , in which an element of the method is the detection of the movement of the pointer alone of the stylus coordinate to make inoperative every operation of the EOS performed by a touch of any predetermined movement of one or more digits on the screen. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 4 , in which an element of the method is an input of the stylus coordinate at least making inoperative every operation of the EOS by the touch providing a design of a computer interface to the movement of a pointer alone. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 5 , in which an element of the method is the movement of a pointer alone by the movement of the digit including at least the scope and content of full backward compatibility of a What You See Is What You Get WYSIWYG interface, including at least one of providing the design of the computer interface to the movement of the pointer alone, and by any of the existing methods of operating the EOS, but in addition may operate the EOS differently by providing an increased capacity of a replacement or alternative method by any elements of the method. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 6 , in which an element of the method is by requiring only a powered touch component being powered to have the increased capacity to operate every operation of the EOS differently by any element of the method by a simpler interface not requiring at least one of the following elements without which one operation of the EOS by touch will be inoperative without
 a. an appearance of the graphical display element, and   b. an appearance of the a powered display component of the screen, and   c. an appearance of the unpowered display component, and   d. another input, and   e. the screen with an unpowered touch component and unpowered display component of the screen.   
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 7 , in which an element of the method is the increased capacity has defined a new touch interface, a What You Touch is What You Get WYTIWYG interface, which makes the WYSIWYG interface of the EOS obsolete at least because the fully capacity of the WYSIWYG is included within the increased capacity of the simpler interface of WYTIWYG thus the disclosure of the WYTIWYG redefines the capacity of the WYSIWYG to be limited to input and display methods of the EOS before the filing date of the method, and the WYTIWYG interface has the full capacity of the WYSIWYG of the existing methods available in the EOS to perform every operation of the EOS and the increased capacity to operate the EOS differently by any elements of the method. 
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 8 , in which an element of the method is the increased capacity of the WYTIWYG interface by operating the EOS differently by any element of the method providing at least one or more of the properties of performing the operation
 (i) more instantly, and   (ii) more accessibly, and   (iii) quicker, and   (iv) easier, and   (v) with less power consumption, and   (vi) more reliable, and   (vii) with increased capacity, and   (viii) less effort, and   (ix) a simpler interface, and   (x) safer in an accident, and   (xi) more ergonomic, and   (xii) simpler for the user and skilled person to design their operation or operations by touch, and   (xiii) is less likely to lose a stylus, and   (xiii) is a simpler device surface appearance, and   (xiv) uses less digit movement, and   (xv) uses less effort   than the EOS performing the operation.   
     
     
         10 . An element of the method of  claim 9 , in which an element of the method is a list of operations of a task with each list item providing one or more options for each operation of the list to be performed, and provides at least the fastest method of performing the task of one or more operation by a single slide or swipe on the screen by the digit in a sequential order, and in which by the selection by the user of an option within one or more previous list items may predetermine the operation of each of the subsequent list items to provide more relevant list items of the list to complete the task. 
     
     
         11 . A method of  claim 10 , in which an element of the method is the touch provides the increased capacity of the WYTIWYG without an attached stylus being required by operating the EOS differently. 
     
     
         12 . A method of  claim 11 , in which an element of the method is the WYTIWYG interface requires at least of one of
 (i) an invisible region, and   (ii) a grid of invisible regions on an appearance of the powered display component of a screen, or an appearance of the unpowered display component of the screen, and   (iii) the touch of at least one of a contact, and slide, and swipe, and tap on the screen and removal from the screen of one or more digits to perform every operation of the EOS differently by at least entering a ASCII character string, including the option of the device being locked without the user entering a passcode as the character string.   
     
     
         13 . A method of  claim 12 , in which an element of the method is the touch of the WYTIWYG emulating the fully functionality of a pointer device to fully operate the EOS differently. 
     
     
         14 . A method of  claim 13 , in which an element of the method is only an area of the touch component of the screen is required in the WYTIWYG interface to be always powered on to detect at least the one location of the path in order for the touch component to use less power than the whole screen. 
     
     
         15 . A method of  claim 14 , in which an element of the method is the WYTIWYG interface may comprise the whole surface of the device, including the screen extending over two or more display screens, in which the stylus coordinate or digital coordinate references a coordinate of the virtual extended screen area of all the pixel coordinates on the surface of the device of one or more screens, and the only input required in the WYTIWYG is the change of pixel coordinate from one pixel to another another by the input of stylus coordinate or the digital coordinate detected over or on the surface of the device by at least movement of the digit, and thereby the appearance of the screen, and the operation of the EOS may be determined by the WYTIWYG interface by any elements of the method. 
     
     
         16 . A method of  claim 15 , in which an element of the method is the instructions of the method are stored on non transitory memory as software executable by a processor of the device to perform the increased capacity to perform the operation of the EOS differently by any elements of the method. 
     
     
         17 . A method of  claim 16 , in which an element of the method is the device including the screen connectively coupled to a processor connectively coupled to the non transitory memory is operable by any element of the method to operate the operation or operations of the EOS by any of the existing input methods of the EOS and differently is called the method of independent touch, and the device is in the form of an apparatus of
 (i) a mobile phone including the screen,   (ii) a pad including the screen,   (iii) a multimedia player,   (iv) a camera or video recorder,   (v) a watch, including a watch face is the touch component of the display, and/or the touch is performed on the watch face with the display component turned off and/or the display component is a transparent LCD display under the watch face, and/or the watch face is transparent, and/or the watch is an analog watch, and/or the watch is a Swiss watch, or a watch,   (vi) Satellite Navigation Device,   (vii) a desktop computer communicatively coupled to the screen,   (viii) a laptop computer communicatively coupled to the screen,   (ix) a piece of jewelry communicatively coupled to the screen,   (x) a mobile device that is button-less communicatively coupled to the screen, and   (xi) a mobile device communicatively coupled to the screen, wherein the touch determines the operation of one or more operations of the device including unlock without visual feedback of the display determining the operation performed by the touch, and   (xii) the apparatus with at least the screen displaying an unpowered display component for a greater duration that the device operated by the EOS, and   (xiii) the apparatus with the display component uses less power to perform the operation than the device operated by the EOS performing the operation, and   (xiv) the apparatus has a default always on touch component of the screen, and thereby the access to perform an operation on the screen is always available, and more instant, and used less power as the display component was not powered to perform the operation than the apparatus operated by the EOS by the default method of the lastest iOS, Android and Windows software as operable by a user when first using the commerical apparatus, and   (xv) an apparatus which performs any operation of the EOS differently by at least one of powering the touch component longer than the EOS powers the touch component, and uses less power by display component of the screen to perform the operation than the power used by the EOS to power the display component.   
     
     
         18 . Non transitory memory storing the instructions of the method of independent touch. 
     
     
         19 . A device including a touch-sensitive display screen connectively coupled to a processor connectively coupled to a non transitory memory to perform the method of independent touch.
 A device of  claim 19  is in the form of an apparatus of
 (i) a mobile phone including the screen, 
 (ii) a pad including the screen, 
 (iii) a multimedia player, 
 (iv) a camera or video recorder, 
 (v) a watch, including a watch face is the touch component of the display, and/or the touch is performed on the watch face with the display component turned off and/or the display component is a transparent LCD display under the watch face, and/or the watch face is transparent, and/or the watch is an analog watch, and/or the watch is a Swiss watch, or a watch, 
 (vi) a Satellite Navigation Device, 
 (vii) a desktop computer communicatively coupled to the screen, 
 (viii) a laptop computer communicatively coupled to the screen, 
 (ix) a piece of jewelry communicatively coupled to the screen, 
 (x) a mobile device that is button-less communicatively coupled to the screen, and 
 (xi) a mobile device communicatively coupled to the screen, wherein the touch determines the operation of one or more operations of the device including unlock without visual feedback of the display determining the operation performed by the touch, and 
 (xii) the apparatus with at least the screen displaying an unpowered display component for a greater duration that the device operated by the EOS, and 
 (xiii) the apparatus with the display component uses less power to perform the operation than the device operated by the EOS performing the operation, and 
 (xiv) the apparatus has a default always on touch component of the screen, and thereby the access to perform an operation on the screen is always available, and more instant, and used less power as the display component was not powered to perform the operation than the apparatus operated by the EOS by the default method of the lastest iOS, Android and Windows software as operable by a user when first using the commerical apparatus, and 
 (xv) an apparatus which performs any operation of the EOS differently by at least one of powering the touch component longer than the EOS powers the touch component, and uses less power by display component of the screen to perform the operation than the power used by the EOS to power the display component.